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[AaronAardvark]

I'm trying ctime or SDL_GetTicks() or anything I can find any info on, but I can't get a high-resolution millisecond count via C++.

Has anyone experienced this?  Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm using Ubuntu and have installed linux-rt and the linux-rt headers, but no dice.

The precision of the time looks fine before calling SDL_Init, but afterwards the value is very small and it just updates about once every second.  Ie., if I have a loop where I continually query the tick count, the output looks like this:

curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1311, last time: 1307
curr time: 1340, last time: 1307

I'm doing SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_TIMER); before calling SDL_GetTicks();

I can post my program, but it's hella messy right now.

[Average Software]

By incredible coincidence, I just had to solve this problem for a job I applied for.

This function basically recreates the win32 QueryPerformanceCounter() on Linux, play with this code:

Code:

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <assert.h>

/* Helpful conversion constants. */
static const unsigned usec_per_sec = 1000000;
static const unsigned usec_per_msec = 1000;

/* These functions are written to match the win32
   signatures and behavior as closely as possible.
*/
bool QueryPerformanceFrequency(int64_t *frequency)
{
    /* Sanity check. */
    assert(frequency != NULL);

    /* gettimeofday reports to microsecond accuracy. */
    *frequency = usec_per_sec;

    return true;
}

bool QueryPerformanceCounter(int64_t *performance_count)
{
    struct timeval time;

    /* Sanity check. */
    assert(performance_count != NULL);

    /* Grab the current time. */
    gettimeofday(&time, NULL);
    *performance_count = time.tv_usec + /* Microseconds. */
                         time.tv_sec * usec_per_sec; /* Seconds. */

    return true;
}

It's in C99, but you should be able to convert it to C++ fairly easily.

[Business Bear]

Let me add to this crazy coincidence.  I did something like this last night for a Linux runtime of my engine.  I was basically trying to create an event loop for X that had a game update timer.  This forum thread helped me out immensely (he gives the code at the end):

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/xnextevent-select-409355/

[AaronAardvark]

Awesome!
Thanks guys!